| Evidence: | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for the "Senior Cambridge" ... :
"Old Mortality", "The Farringdons", "By Mutual Consent" (L. T. Meade), "To Call Her Mine", "Kathrine Regina", and "Self or Bearer" (Besant); "Christmas Carol", "The Cricket on the Hearth", "Hypatia", "Concerning Isabel Carnaby", "The Virginians", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Head of the House" (E. Everett-Green), "A Double Thread", "The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent", "Sesame and Lilies", "A Tale of Two Cities".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jul 1904 and 19 Nov 1904 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Great Britain | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1888 |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | School pupil |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | Great Britain |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Walter Besant |
| Title: | Self or Bearer |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4619 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kate Flint | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Woman Reader 1837-1914 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 158 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 158, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4619, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
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